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Sadly, the Downsview Park mandate is to NOT use any taxpayer's money, so they need to bring in some investor:

http://www.downsviewpark.ca/media/APM_Announce2011.pdf

90-year-old facility gets a new lease on life
In 2012, the Park will begin the redevelopment and repurposing of 65 Carl Hall Road, a 90-
year-old former de Havilland Aircraft building which has surpassed its usefulness.
The facility currently houses various tenants, including the privately-run Canadian Air &
Space Museum. In order to proceed with the redevelopment of the building, Downsview
Park ended leases of its tenants on September 20, 2011, while offering tenants ample
transition time and the possibility of relocation within the Park.
The Canadian Air & Space Museum @ Downsview Park
While Downsview Park receives no public funds and the Canadian Air & Space Museum is a
private museum, the Park has nonetheless been one of the Museum’s strongest supporters.
This support includes:
providing operating subsidies worth more than $1 million since 2003;
collaborating with the Museum through three strategic alliances and the current
lease arrangements to help build the Museum’s business model and marketing
strategy;
holding extensive discussion and consultation over the past year regarding the
future of the property;
being in rental arrears for 17 months;
agreeing to assist with any reasonable moving expenses of Museum artifacts to
another location at the Park; and
storage of the Museum’s artifacts for a reasonable period of time, at no expense to
the Museum.
Since the Museum nor the Park has the financial resources to fund the required repair of
the building, the Park took the difficult but necessary decision to end the lease, while giving
the Museum six months to transition to a new home.
Downsview Park welcomes proposals from the Museum should its board and management
wish to consider relocation at the Park.
The Canadian Air & Space Museum has been afforded access to its facility as reasonably
required, and will be assisted over the next number of months to effect an orderly
transition of its operations and to secure the various artifacts and displays.
Downsview Park (a deemed parent Crown corporation) is self-financing, with a mandate to
create a park without any taxpayer subsidy. As such, the Park seeks both to preserve the
area’s heritage and to increase public participation.
To this end, the Park’s Board of Directors approved a proposal to bring new investment and
new visitors to the Park, at no cost to taxpayers. The plan features a new ice complex—a
third-party investment that will restructure and repurpose 65 Carl Hall Road, while
maintaining its historic façade and other elements (to be incorporated into the proposed
design), while attracting an anticipated 750,000 additional people to the Park every year.
The four-pad ice complex is scheduled to open in September of 2013.